William McNeill is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and is the author of The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory, also published by SUNY Press.

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Introduction

1. The Phenomenon of Life: Human, Animal, and World in Heidegger's 1929-30 Freiburg Lectures

The Soul, Unity of the Body
The Organism and its Organs
The Animal as Other
The Being of the Animal: Organism and Environment
The Phenomenon of World
The Time of Life: Self and World

2. Care for the Self: Originary Ethics in Heidegger and Foucault

Heidegger: Selfhood and the Finitude of Time
Foucault: Ethos and the Practice of Freedom
Care for the Self and the Task of Philosophizing

3. Apportioning the Moment: Time and Ethos in Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Rhetoric

Koinønia: Ethos and Community
Time and Ethical Virtue

4. The Time of Action: From Phenomenology of Praxis to the Historicality of Being

The Moment as the Site of Human Action: Heidegger's Reading of Aristotle and the Phenomenology of Dasein
The Moment as the Time of Ereignis: From Phenomenology to the History of Being

5. Historical Beginnings: Moment and Rupture in Heidegger's Work of the 1930s

Ethos and Concealment: The Power of Beginnings
History and Origin: The Irruption of Worlds

6. Ethos and Poetic Dwelling: Inaugural Time in Heidegger's Dialogue with Hölderlin

Temporality, Attunement, and the Phenomenology of World
Inaugural Time in Hölderlin's Poetizing
Is There a Measure on Earth? Poetizing and Human Ethos
The Eclipse of Experience: Exposure and Dwelling in Greek Tragedy
The Festival

7. The Telling of Ethos: Heidegger, Aristotle, Sophocles

A "Scarcely Pondered Word": Aristotle's Testimony
Theoria and Tragedy: Aristotle's Poetics
Theoria and Katharsis
"The Purest Poem": Heidegger's Antigone

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